linux
KvmCtl

KvmCtl assists you in administrating KVM virtual machines. It doesn’t provide a full management suite to fit all needs, it is just a little helper program to start, stop and check your virtual machines on a host.…

Miscellaneous

PyWsdlGen PyWsdlGen is a little tool to generate a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file from Python source files. It parses a given Python source file and reads all public methods defined in this file to generate a WSDL file to be used for example for SOAP services implemented in Python.…

Build GIT version of Xfce4

This is a little build script for Xfce4 to fetch and compile the sources from GIT (master). Short instructions: You should start with an empty directory, where you put this script.…

df -h + mount = di

There is a command line tool called di which basically combines the information of df and mount. I like this tool very much because it quickly prints lots of useful information about the existing filesystems on system and about their type, usage and mountpoint.…

Restore a SSH public key

I recently had the problem that I had on a system the private part of the SSH key but its public part got lost. Generating a new key pair wasn’t pBEGIN TRANSACTION;ossible as the public part was still installed on other systems foBEGIN TRANSACTION;r proper public key authentication and I could not change this.…

Show or hide the mouse cursor

hide_cursor.c is a small tool, to hide or show the mouse cursor on an X display. The source code is based on a tool from Nevrax (www.nevrax.com). To compile it, just type something like:…

Getting IPv6 in the IPv6 no-man's-land

While more and more ISPs and hosting providers start offering IPv6 subnets alongside with usual IPv4 addresses in dual-stack mode, there are still IPv4-only areas. Luckily, the ISP providing my internet link at home, offers native IPv6 since a few weeks in some kind of beta phase for interested users.…